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I advocate for a political concept of love—planetary love—drawing on a Deleuzian political philosophy of love (via Hardt and Negri) as well as the concept of love developed by the postcolonial theorist Gayatri Spivak and elaborated on by the theologian Catherine Keller. It’s an ecological and feminist sense of love, not a sentimental or romantic or PlatonicContinue reading “For the Love of Capitalism”

Thinking of philosophy as resistance, one might think first of the philosophical activities of Marxists, feminists, and environmentalists. I would add process philosophers to that list. For Bergson, for instance, philosophizing is a violent inversion of the status quo. The mind has to do violence to itself, has to reverse the direction of the operationContinue reading “Philosophy as Resistance: Commons for All”

In the recent edition of my column at Nomos Journal, I consider the theologico-political dynamics of fame by looking at depictions of Jesus Christ in a couple musicals, including Jesus Christ Superstar and a musical currently in development, Spears: The Gospel According to Britney. If faith is a matter of ultimate concern (Paul Tillich’s well-knownContinue reading “The Dynamics of Fame”

To find oneself in love is to find oneself not free but captivated. Eroticism is suspect to the ethical mind. Orgasm is pleasure in the breakdown of laws, action, responsibility, conscientiousness, and consciousness. Sensuality is transgressive. In the bodies denuded, sexual excitement surges in the meltdown of built-up structures. As our bodies become orgasmic, theContinue reading “Making Love with Lingis…Again.”

When we, in our so pregnant expression, make love with someone of our own species, we also make love with the horse and the dolphin, the kitten and the macaw, the powdery moths and the lustful crickets. A thinker who comprehends with the hands, hands made for blessing, sees swallows and owls, wetlands and tundraContinue reading “Making Love with Lingis”

I spent the day re-reading a classic Alan Watts book, The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness (Vintage Books, 1965). Basically, the book is a retrospective summary account of his experiences with psychedelic drugs (e.g., LSD, mescaline, psilocybin). It could be described as his version of Aldous Huxley’s Doors of Perception. Indeed, Watts justifies writingContinue reading “Joyous Cosmology: Chemistry of Consciousness”